Yep. You can see it with the latest iPad release when Tim Cook asks what they can do to make the best tablet better and then proceeds to show off an image of the device getting 18% thinner.
I'm actually a bit sad about iPad. I think it's a fantastic product that could be so much more. I'd love to see a reimagine of iPad software. But iOS 8 is still unpolished enough that I'm sure all their time is spent on fixing bugs. Sigh. Here's hoping that next spring we see the next chapter for iPad. At some point it will be impossible to make it any thinner so then what?
The new iPad Air 2 is nearly a half pound lighter, in addition to being thinner. That's an important feature. I feel my iPad 3 is too heavy and I want the new one because it's lighter and faster.
For those of you that are saying "Big Deal"...I agree from the standpoint of how I view Apple and Tim Cook. But for someone in his position I think it is a big deal that he is using his status to drive change in a very similar way to how Apple drives change in technology. For example, iTunes and digital distribution model pushed out the need to have a DVD drive. Or their heavy use of solid state drove their ability to be the first to offer that standard in their laptops...the list goes on and on...Kudos Tim Cook.
The new iPad Air 2 is nearly a half pound lighter, in addition to being thinner. That's an important feature. I feel my iPad 3 is too heavy and I want the new one because it's lighter and faster.
Don't get me wrong, I love my Air 2. But I think Apple needs to do more with iPad than just making it thinner and lighter. At some point the law of physics won't allow them to make it any thinner. Then what?
I never equated being gay with pedophilia nor express hate for anyone or any group! I simply highlighted that nowadays each individual has his/her own sense of right and wrong and good and bad.
Much like Eric's characterization of me or many of your IMPLIED characterization of pedophiles!
The new iPad Air 2 is nearly a half pound lighter, in addition to being thinner. That's an important feature. I feel my iPad 3 is too heavy and I want the new one because it's lighter and faster.
The iPad Air 2 w/ Wifi/Cellular model is a whopping .07 lbs lighter than the iPad Air. Which model where you comparing the new iPad Air 2 with?
Tim Cook is in a highly visible position. That he would be open and be an example for decency, integrity, class, speaks well for him, and in effect for Apple. It is consistent. The kind of values that would make me support Apple more, not less.
I am so proud of Tim. For those you say this is a distraction...maybe...but I work with many gay people....they are the most loyal iPhone users on the planet...they are the vanguard of Apple....and completely within the tradition of the company...think (and be) different.
When I read that Wired interview I was shocked to see how much we agreed on. The guy was a libertarian, if anything (like much of Silicon Valley).
The man offered Apple's services to run President Obama's campaigns. He helped Clinton's campaigns. Sorry, but you misplace business practices with Social/Political views and it's giving you the impression he was a Libertarian. Sorry, but the guy has always been a Democrat, like his wife. His views on Education aren't Libertarian.
Steve Jobs hired the brightest minds in the globe, most of which came from European Socialist Democratic nations. His personal view on Education was one of his areas the bulb was never too bright as it never squared with his actual practice of measuring talent.
Put it another way, Steve never needed any advanced degrees because his unique situation afforded him to hire those with them, to help fulfill his dreams and ambitions. He paid Lisa's entire Princeton education the first day she arrived.
If the man weren't in the IT world as a visionary he most certainly would have been a practicing Zen Buddhist Monk taking a vow of poverty. If he had any musical talent he would have wanted to be Lennon or Dillon. His talent resided in a timing that society was entering in an information age and he could see it.
He `saw' no reason for continuing his Reid University days because one could start a business like he did out of a garage. All but one person turned him and Wozniak down. Without that one person he'd be doing odd jobs his entire life. Timing and luck were paramount for Steve to be around brilliant minds to get his imagination fully realized.
For every Steve Jobs there are billions that are not him. He realized that. Libertarianism emboldens the ideas of selfishness as a virtue [Ayn Rand] and Greed is an attribute of a sane mind.
Steve railed against both. He valued vision through teams, and saw business a means to evolve society and capital the means to keep iterating it to its next levels. He never desired wealth but saw the requirement that wealth made it possible to keep pushing the technological envelope.
If you can't grasp that you never understood Steven P. Jobs.
I am so proud of Tim. For those you say this is a distraction...maybe...but I work with many gay people....they are the most loyal iPhone users on the planet...they are the vanguard of Apple....and completely within the tradition of the company...think (and be) different.
To paraphrase a famous line from Pixar's The Incredibles: "If everyone's different, then no one is."
I don't get this whole gay pride thing, seriously I don't.
I'm not "proud" to be a straight, male human being, it's just what I am.
You don't get it? What's not to get? Some people are actually proud to be abnormal, some guys want the world to know that they are happy to take another guys package up their butt.
It's about not being ashamed to be whatever you are ...
When did I say it was? If you are happy with who you are then why feel the need to shout about it at all. He's gay, he feels attracted to men not girls. Fine, it's his life, he can live it however he wants to.
Him being gay affects me no more than me being straight affects him.
Why do so many people feel the need to run around "proudly" announcing that they are gay, or black, or a short Asian woman brought up by Irish nuns in the south of France with a white half sister and a colour blind uncle who suffers from narcolepsy.
Yep. You can see it with the latest iPad release when Tim Cook asks what they can do to make the best tablet better and then proceeds to show off an image of the device getting 18% thinner.
I'm actually a bit sad about iPad. I think it's a fantastic product that could be so much more. I'd love to see a reimagine of iPad software. But iOS 8 is still unpolished enough that I'm sure all their time is spent on fixing bugs. Sigh. Here's hoping that next spring we see the next chapter for iPad. At some point it will be impossible to make it any thinner so then what?
Yep. Honestly, despite the fact that I returned it due to hardware issues (design problem with the screens) I still miss the enhanced productivity offered by my Surface 2. The multi-window support is quite nice. I usually would have Xbox Music running as a small 1/6th app to the side, and then my main app taking up the rest of the space.
I think Apple honestly doesn't know what to do with the iPad anymore. People forget that the Mac launched and then pretty much flopped after the initial sales rush, it wasn't until the introduction of the LaserWriter that desktop publishing became a huge deal and Mac sales took off.
iPad has not had its LaserWriter moment.
And yes, the Air 2 is much more powerful than the Air. The problem is that there are all of five apps that actually can take advantage of it. The majority of apps still don't even really utilize last year's A7. It's becoming a similar situation to what's happening with PC's, where a Core 2 Duo from 2007 is powerful enough to do everything people want it to do, and it runs the latest version of Windows better than it ran older versions. Forcing 64-bit native apps next year will help, but that means the A7 will be seventeen months old by the time developers begin to get serious about it.
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The new iPad Air 2 is nearly a half pound lighter, in addition to being thinner. That's an important feature. I feel my iPad 3 is too heavy and I want the new one because it's lighter and faster.
It's .04 pounds lighter than the Air. It feels like a bigger weight reduction because of changes in weight distribution, but from the Air it was a small drop.
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Don't get me wrong, I love my Air 2. But I think Apple needs to do more with iPad than just making it thinner and lighter. At some point the law of physics won't allow them to make it any thinner. Then what?
And the only reason it got thinner was simply because the display got thinner, which was a natural, expected progression (not having a laminated display was one of my biggest complaints about the first Air). Since Apple wasn't about to make it heavier by putting a larger battery in it, the Air 2 was going to be thinner, no question about it. I don't see what they expect to do next year. A larger tablet is a possibility, but not if it's just an even larger version of iOS as is.
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The new iPad Air 2 is nearly a half pound lighter, in addition to being thinner. That's an important feature. I feel my iPad 3 is too heavy and I want the new one because it's lighter and faster.
For those of you that are saying "Big Deal"...I agree from the standpoint of how I view Apple and Tim Cook. But for someone in his position I think it is a big deal that he is using his status to drive change in a very similar way to how Apple drives change in technology. For example, iTunes and digital distribution model pushed out the need to have a DVD drive. Or their heavy use of solid state drove their ability to be the first to offer that standard in their laptops...the list goes on and on...Kudos Tim Cook.
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Don't get me wrong, I love my Air 2. But I think Apple needs to do more with iPad than just making it thinner and lighter. At some point the law of physics won't allow them to make it any thinner. Then what?
Hit a sensitive nerve did I?
I never equated being gay with pedophilia nor express hate for anyone or any group! I simply highlighted that nowadays each individual has his/her own sense of right and wrong and good and bad.
Much like Eric's characterization of me or many of your IMPLIED characterization of pedophiles!
Just saying....
I don't get this whole gay pride thing, seriously I don't.
I'm not "proud" to be a straight, male human being, it's just what I am.
The iPad Air 2 w/ Wifi/Cellular model is a whopping .07 lbs lighter than the iPad Air. Which model where you comparing the new iPad Air 2 with?
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It's about not being ashamed to be whatever you are ...
The man offered Apple's services to run President Obama's campaigns. He helped Clinton's campaigns. Sorry, but you misplace business practices with Social/Political views and it's giving you the impression he was a Libertarian. Sorry, but the guy has always been a Democrat, like his wife. His views on Education aren't Libertarian.
Steve Jobs hired the brightest minds in the globe, most of which came from European Socialist Democratic nations. His personal view on Education was one of his areas the bulb was never too bright as it never squared with his actual practice of measuring talent.
Put it another way, Steve never needed any advanced degrees because his unique situation afforded him to hire those with them, to help fulfill his dreams and ambitions. He paid Lisa's entire Princeton education the first day she arrived.
If the man weren't in the IT world as a visionary he most certainly would have been a practicing Zen Buddhist Monk taking a vow of poverty. If he had any musical talent he would have wanted to be Lennon or Dillon. His talent resided in a timing that society was entering in an information age and he could see it.
He `saw' no reason for continuing his Reid University days because one could start a business like he did out of a garage. All but one person turned him and Wozniak down. Without that one person he'd be doing odd jobs his entire life. Timing and luck were paramount for Steve to be around brilliant minds to get his imagination fully realized.
For every Steve Jobs there are billions that are not him. He realized that. Libertarianism emboldens the ideas of selfishness as a virtue [Ayn Rand] and Greed is an attribute of a sane mind.
Steve railed against both. He valued vision through teams, and saw business a means to evolve society and capital the means to keep iterating it to its next levels. He never desired wealth but saw the requirement that wealth made it possible to keep pushing the technological envelope.
If you can't grasp that you never understood Steven P. Jobs.
I don't get that either. But if someone said I'm proud to be a heterosexual and consider it a gift from God they'd probably be labeled homophobic.
To paraphrase a famous line from Pixar's The Incredibles: "If everyone's different, then no one is."
I don't get this whole gay pride thing, seriously I don't.
I'm not "proud" to be a straight, male human being, it's just what I am.
You don't get it? What's not to get? Some people are actually proud to be abnormal, some guys want the world to know that they are happy to take another guys package up their butt.
It's about not being ashamed to be whatever you are ...
When did I say it was? If you are happy with who you are then why feel the need to shout about it at all. He's gay, he feels attracted to men not girls. Fine, it's his life, he can live it however he wants to.
Him being gay affects me no more than me being straight affects him.
Why do so many people feel the need to run around "proudly" announcing that they are gay, or black, or a short Asian woman brought up by Irish nuns in the south of France with a white half sister and a colour blind uncle who suffers from narcolepsy.
Yep. You can see it with the latest iPad release when Tim Cook asks what they can do to make the best tablet better and then proceeds to show off an image of the device getting 18% thinner.
I'm actually a bit sad about iPad. I think it's a fantastic product that could be so much more. I'd love to see a reimagine of iPad software. But iOS 8 is still unpolished enough that I'm sure all their time is spent on fixing bugs. Sigh. Here's hoping that next spring we see the next chapter for iPad. At some point it will be impossible to make it any thinner so then what?
Yep. Honestly, despite the fact that I returned it due to hardware issues (design problem with the screens) I still miss the enhanced productivity offered by my Surface 2. The multi-window support is quite nice. I usually would have Xbox Music running as a small 1/6th app to the side, and then my main app taking up the rest of the space.
I think Apple honestly doesn't know what to do with the iPad anymore. People forget that the Mac launched and then pretty much flopped after the initial sales rush, it wasn't until the introduction of the LaserWriter that desktop publishing became a huge deal and Mac sales took off.
iPad has not had its LaserWriter moment.
And yes, the Air 2 is much more powerful than the Air. The problem is that there are all of five apps that actually can take advantage of it. The majority of apps still don't even really utilize last year's A7. It's becoming a similar situation to what's happening with PC's, where a Core 2 Duo from 2007 is powerful enough to do everything people want it to do, and it runs the latest version of Windows better than it ran older versions. Forcing 64-bit native apps next year will help, but that means the A7 will be seventeen months old by the time developers begin to get serious about it.
The new iPad Air 2 is nearly a half pound lighter, in addition to being thinner. That's an important feature. I feel my iPad 3 is too heavy and I want the new one because it's lighter and faster.
It's .04 pounds lighter than the Air. It feels like a bigger weight reduction because of changes in weight distribution, but from the Air it was a small drop.
Don't get me wrong, I love my Air 2. But I think Apple needs to do more with iPad than just making it thinner and lighter. At some point the law of physics won't allow them to make it any thinner. Then what?
And the only reason it got thinner was simply because the display got thinner, which was a natural, expected progression (not having a laminated display was one of my biggest complaints about the first Air). Since Apple wasn't about to make it heavier by putting a larger battery in it, the Air 2 was going to be thinner, no question about it. I don't see what they expect to do next year. A larger tablet is a possibility, but not if it's just an even larger version of iOS as is.